'It’s like going from living in heaven to hell': Residents furious over noise from overhead jets

Amid the ongoing dispute between locals and Dublin Airport, one resident told the Irish Examiner he no longer lets his children cycle on local roads as the noise from overhead planes makes cars impossible to hear

As soon as planes began taking off from the new north runway at Dublin Airport last August, local residents knew they had a serious problem. Picture Colin Keegan/ Collins 

Driving back to Dublin after four hours in the leafy environs of The Ward in North Dublin, some 12km from Dublin Airport as the crow flies, a strange thing happens.

I’m driving on the N2, and I notice I can persistently hear the sound of engines. Not your usual dull motorway drone, but the screech of an airliner.